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62 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17490
The Hidden Value of Adult Informal Care in Europe
Joan Costa-Font, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
forthcoming in: Health Economics, 2024.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16622
Life-Cycle Effects of Comprehensive Sex Education
Volha Lazuka, Annika Elwert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16479
The Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Adults' Subjective Wellbeing
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson
published as 'The adult consequences on wellbeing of abuse and neglect in childhood ' in: International Journal of Wellbeing, 2024, 14 (3), 3513, 1-28
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16355
Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-Being Reducing?
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson
published in: PloS ONE, 2024, 19 (11), e0305347
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16309
Mental Health in European Economics Departments
Elisa Macchi, Clara Sievert, Valentin Bolotnyy, Paul Barreira
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15790
Wellbeing Rankings
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson
published in: Social Indicators Research, 2024, 171, 513–565
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15554
Organisational Leadership: How Much Does It Matter?
Getinet Astatike Haile
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, 61 (3), 653 - 673
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15389
Children in the Aftermath of the Great Recession
Carsten Andersen, Mikkel Aagaard Houmark, Helena Skyt Nielsen, Michael Svarer
published in: Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift/ Danish Economic Journal, 2022, 2022 (1), Article 3
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15369
Caring for Carers? The Effect of Public Subsidies on the Wellbeing of Unpaid Carers
Joan Costa-Font, Francesco D’Amico, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 9 (4), 487–522
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15369
Caring for Carers? The Effect of Public Subsidies on the Wellbeing of Unpaid Carers
Joan Costa-Font, Francesco D’Amico, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 9 (4), 487–522
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14754
Medicaid Expansion and the Mental Health of Spousal Caregivers
Joan Costa-Font, Nilesh Raut, Courtney Van Houtven
published in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2024, 22, 1047–1084
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14722
Physical Pain, Gender, and the State of the Economy in 146 Nations
Lucía Macchia, Andrew J. Oswald
published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2021, 287, 114332
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14706
Footsie, Yeah! Share Prices and Worker Wellbeing
Alex Bryson, Andrew E. Clark, Colin P. Green
published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2022, 4 (3), 197-211
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14570
The Welfare Effects of Time Reallocation: Evidence from Daylight Saving Time
Joan Costa-Font, Sarah Flèche, Ricardo Pagan
published in: Economica, 2024, 91 (362), 547 - 568
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14509
Capitalism Recoupled
Colm Kelly, Dennis J. Snower
pubished in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2021, 37 (4), 851 - 863
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14447
A Local Community Course That Raises Wellbeing and Pro-sociality: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial
Christian Krekel, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Daisy Fancourt, Richard Layard
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 188, 322-336
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14431
Happy to Help: The Welfare Effects of a Nationwide Micro-Volunteering Programme
Paul Dolan, Christian Krekel, Ganga Shreedhar, Helen Lee, Claire Marshall, Allison Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14258
Measuring National Life Satisfaction with Music
Emmanouil Benetos, Alessandro Ragano, Daniel Sgroi, Anthony Tuckwell
published as 'Measuring national mood with music: using machine learning to construct a measure of national valence from audio data' in: Behavior Research Methods, 2022, 54, 3085–3092
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14239
Do You Really Want to Share Everything? The Wellbeing of Work-Linked Couples
Juliane Hennecke, Clemens Hetschko
published online in: Oxford Economic Papers, 16 September 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14220
Resilience to Disaster: Evidence from Daily Wellbeing Data
Paul Frijters, David W. Johnston, Rachel Knott, Benno Torgler
published in: Global Environmental Change, 2023, 79, 102639
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13959
Quantifying the Externalities of Renewable Energy Plants Using Wellbeing Data: The Case of Biogas
Christian Krekel, Julia Rechlitz, Johannes Rode, Alexander Zerrahn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13905
How Threatening Are Transformations of Happiness Scales to Subjective Wellbeing Research?
Caspar F. Kaiser, Maarten C.M. Vendrik
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13884
Measuring Financial Wellbeing with Self-Reported and Bank-Record Data
Carole Comerton-Forde, John de New, Nicolás Salamanca, David C. Ribar, Andrea Nicastro, James Ross
published in: Economic Record, 2022, 98 (321), 133-151
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13879
How Do Mass Shootings Affect Community Wellbeing?
Aparna Soni, Erdal Tekin
published online in: Journal of Human Resources, June 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13692
The Relationship between Subjective Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing Inequality: Taking Ordinality and Skewness Seriously
Arthur Grimes, Stephen P. Jenkins, Florencia Tranquilli
published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2023, 24, 309 - 330
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13587
Stung by Pension Reforms: The Impact of a Change in State Pension Age on Mental Health and Life Satisfaction of Affected Women
Marina Della Giusta, Simonetta Longhi
published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 72,102049
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13527
Ageing, Health, Loneliness and Wellbeing
Massimiliano Tani, Zhiming Cheng, Matloob Piracha, Ben Zhe Wang
published in: Social Indicators Research, 2020, 26, 1-17
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13503
COVID-19 and Mental Health Deterioration among BAME Groups in the UK
Eugenio Proto, Climent Quintana-Domeque
revised version published as 'COVID-19 and mental health deterioration by ethnicity and gender in the UK' in: PLOS ONE, 2021, 16 (1), e0244419
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13463
Gender Inequality in COVID-19 Times: Evidence from UK Prolific Participants
Sonia Oreffice, Climent Quintana-Domeque
revised version published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021, 87 (2), 261-287
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13403
Retirement, Social Support and Mental Wellbeing: A Couple-level Analysis
Nathan Kettlewell, Jack Lam
published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 23, 511–535
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13021
Machiavelli versus Concave Utility Functions: Should Bads Be Spread out or Concentrated?
Paul Frijters, Christian Krekel, Aydogan Ulker
published as 'Should bads be inflicted all at once, like Machiavelli said? Evidence from life-satisfaction data' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 1 - 27
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12720
A Happy Choice: Wellbeing as the Goal of Government
Paul Frijters, Andrew E. Clark, Christian Krekel, Richard Layard
published in: Behavioural Public Policy, 2020, 4(2), 126–165
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12589
Does It Pay to Bet on Your Favourite to Win? Evidence on Experienced Utility from the 2018 FIFA World Cup Experiment
Lajos Kossuth, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Donna Harris, Nick Chater
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 171, 35-58.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12519
Climbing up Ladders and Sliding down Snakes: An Empirical Assessment of the Effect of Social Mobility on Subjective Wellbeing
Paul Dolan, Grace Lordan
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19, 1023–1045
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11962
The Labeling Effect of a Child Benefits System: Evidence from Russia 1994-2015
Louise Grogan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11961
Government Transfers, Work and Wellbeing: Evidence from the Russian Old-Age Pension
Louise Grogan, Fraser Summerfield
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11273
How Does Terrorism Affect Individuals' Wellbeing?
Alex Bryson, George MacKerron
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11112
Mutual Gains? Is There a Role for Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace?
Alex Bryson
published in: Bosio, G., Minola, T., Origio, F., and Tomelleri, S. (eds), Rethinking Entrepreneurial Human Capital, Springer, 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11098
Overoptimistic Entrepreneurs: Predicting Wellbeing Consequences of Self-Employment
Reto Odermatt, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Alois Stutzer
revised version published as 'Are Newly Self-Employed Overly Optimistic About Their Future Well-Being?' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021, 95, 101779
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10486
Does Job Support Make Workers Happy?
Petri Böckerman, Alex Bryson, Antti Kauhanen, Mari Kangasniemi
published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 67 (1), 31-52
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10412
Social Media Use and Children's Wellbeing
Emily McDool, Philip Powell, Jennifer Roberts, Karl Taylor
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 69, 1-20
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10210
If Life Throws You Lemons, Try To Make Lemonade: Does Locus of Control Help People Cope with Unexpected Shocks?
Steven Stillman, Malathi Velamuri
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9840
Wellbeing Evidence for the Assessment of Progress
Paul Anand, Laurence Roope, Andreas Peichl
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9311
Victimisation, Wellbeing and Compensation: Using Panel Data to Estimate the Costs of Violent Crime
David W. Johnston, Michael A. Shields, Agne Suziedelyte
published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128, 1545-69.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9224
Do More of Those in Misery Suffer from Poverty, Unemployment or Mental Illness?
Sarah Flèche, Richard Layard
published in: Kyklos, 2017, 70 (1), 27 - 41
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9195
Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing Using Millions of Digitized Books
Thomas Hills, Eugenio Proto, Daniel Sgroi
extended version published in: Nature Human Behavior, 2019, 3 (12), 1271–1275
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9096
Does Worker Wellbeing Affect Workplace Performance?
Alex Bryson, John Forth, Lucy Stokes
published in: Human Relations, 2017, 70 (8), 1017-1037
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8760
Survey Design and the Determinants of Subjective Wellbeing: An Experimental Analysis
Angus J. Holford, Stephen Pudney
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8361
Spillover Effects of Unionisation on Non-members' Well-being
Getinet Astatike Haile, Alex Bryson, Michael White
published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 108-122
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8014
Crime and Mental Wellbeing
Francesca Cornaglia, Naomi E. Feldman, Andrew Leigh
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (1), 110-140
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7832
The Wealth, Health and Wellbeing of Ireland's Older People Before and During the Economic Crisis
Alan Barrett, Vincent O'Sullivan
published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2014, 21 (10), 675-678
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7711
The Effect of Local Area Crime on Mental Health
Christian Dustmann, Francesco Fasani
published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (593), 978-1017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7547
"Romanticizing Penniless Entrepreneurs?" The Relationship between Start-Ups and Human Wellbeing across Countries
Wim Naudé, José Ernesto Amorós, Oscar Cristi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7057
Heterogeneity in Subjective Wellbeing: An Application to Occupational Allocation in Africa
Paolo Falco, William F. Maloney, Bob Rijkers, Mauricio Sarrias
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4375
The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program
John Gibson, David McKenzie, Steven Stillman
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (4), 1297-1318
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2911
Economic Gains from Publicly Provided Education in Germany
Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka, Olaf Groh-Samberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2208
Does Happiness Adapt? A Longitudinal Study of Disability with Implications for Economists and Judges
Andrew J. Oswald, Nattavudh Powdthavee
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (5-6), 1061-1077
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2079
Hedonic Capital
Liam Graham, Andrew J. Oswald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1909
The Scots May Be Brave But They Are Neither Healthy Nor Happy
David N.F. Bell, David G. Blanchflower
published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 54 (2), 166-194
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1505
Does Wage Rank Affect Employees' Wellbeing?
Gordon D. A. Brown, Jonathan Gardner, Andrew J. Oswald, Jing Qian
published in: Industrial Relations, 2008, 47 (3), 355-389
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1218
Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness… Or Does It? A Reconsideration Based on the Combined Effects of Wealth, Income and Consumption
Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, Mark Wooden
published in: Social Indicators Research, 2008, 87(1), 65-82.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 865
Mincer's Overtaking Point and the Lifecycle Earnings Distribution
Solomon Polachek
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2003, 1 (4), 273-304
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